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Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples

June 12, 2009 by ebw

A recent scholarly paper on the subject of hydrocarbon exploration and extraction and indigenous peoples and biodiversity is Finer M, Jenkins CN, Pimm SL, Keane B, Ross C, 2008 Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples. PLoS ONE 3(8): e2932. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002932.

I found it very illuminating.

Some Local Info

May 18, 2009 by ebw

These come from the NAISA unofficial Facebook group.

Outdoors:
Lake Harriet
Lake Calhoun/Lake of the Isles/Cedar Lake

Museums
Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Weisman Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mill City Museum*

Bars
Town Hall
Happy Gnome
Muddy Pig

Restaurants

A week spent in schools

May 16, 2009 by ebw

my pre-conference accomplishments are very mundane.

• move travel trailer from dakota meadows rv camp (operated by the shakopee mdewakaton sioux community at mystic lake) to storage in s.w. minneapolis,
• get over lack-of-sleep plus bi-directional jet-lag from the previous staff-week in barcelona (sleep deprivation is torture,
• move clothing, kitchen, children's toys and books, spouse's books, even my books, from travel trailer to 1 month rental at 46th and bryant ave. south,